Updated at 11:05 am through 2:24 pm EDT First the White House during the shutdown and then the president today asserted that there are no winners in the debacle that held the government in limbo for 16 days and almost...

In the event anyone gets too carried away with all the talk of “common ground” coming out of the House speaker’s office, the Republican Study Conference, a conservative assemblage that compromises more than two thirds of the party’s caucus, today...

John Boehner was one of two nominated today for speaker of the House in the 113th Congress. The other? Newt Gingrich. That’s right. The former Georgia representative who resigned his speakership in 1998 and then left Congress a few months...

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio holds up the gavel after receiving it from outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 5, 2011.

The presidency isn’t all that’s at stake this year. So is partisan control of Congress, where Rep. John Boehner of Ohio holds the House speaker’s gavel for the Republican majority. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House speaker,...